Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

by Kate Simon

Overview

"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140263312
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/1997
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.69(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Simon's 1982 memoir made several best books lists. It follows her own life as an immigrant child growing into adolescence in the Bronx. This remains for "general readers and mature YAs" (LJ 5/1/82).

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